Industry Quotes
SGX is investing in the most advanced trading technology to ensure that our customers enjoy ultra-fast trading and the best access to Asia. We are delighted to be leveraging on the low-latency characteristics of Voltaire’s InfiniBand switches and software to ensure the success of this initiative.
Bob Caisley, Chief Information Officer
Singapore Exchange (SGX)
We have been very impressed by how well Voltaire’s VMA software has operated for us in the development and testing of SGX’s new trading platform. Voltaire’s VMA software provided most of the latency improvement without requiring any changes to the application. With this solution, we are able to fully utilize the performance benefits of InfiniBand.
Mats Andersson, Chief Technology Officer
NASDAQ OMX
We selected Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Real Applications Clusters with Voltaire InfiniBand with the intent to consolidate many of our service databases and use just one platform to launch new value-added services to our customers. Not only have we saved money by reducing the number of servers in our data center, but we now have a much more utilized, highly available and flexible system that will allow us to scale to meet future requirements. Using Voltaire InfiniBand for the solution’s I/O fabric is a key factor in the improved scalability and cost reduction enabled by moving to an Oracle Real Application Cluster environment. Voltaire InfiniBand also supplied the high bandwidth and low latency we needed to make applications migration run smoothly.
Hüsnü Sensoy, Database Architect
Turkcell
Our main mission is to drive scientific innovation and advancement in industry by applying leading-edge supercomputing technologies. The Voltaire InfiniBand switches are integral for enabling the high performance, efficiency and stability of our 30,000-plus cores supercomputer.
Yuqi Wei, Manager, Technical Support Department
Shanghai Supercomputer Center
With Voltaire FCA, the IMB Allreduce & Barrier benchmarks ran seven times faster on a 512 core portion of our Intel Xeon E5520 based cluster. We are extremely proud to be the first customer to run Voltaire FCA in a large environment, and expect it to help us increase the efficiency and productivity of our research clusters by orders of magnitude.
Niclas Andersson, Technical Director
National Supercomputer Centre in Sweden
This powerful new supercomputer supports research in pursuit of solutions to important concerns such as global warming and to finding safe and reliable energy sources, and cures for or prevention of communicable diseases. The inclusion of a Voltaire InfiniBand fabric in the design provides an ultra-fast communication mechanism between the servers and the storage to dramatically speed up the performance of the applications running on the system. As such, it’s anticipated that months of computing time will be reduced to weeks, days or even hours.
Dr. Happy Sithole, Director
Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC), Cape Town, South Africa
As the leading mobile services provider in China, China Mobile boasts the world’s largest mobile network and the world’s largest mobile subscriber base. Oracle Real Application Clusters interconnected with Voltaire InfiniBand has enabled us to run our applications faster.
Qiang Guo, IT Manager, Henan Branch
China Mobile
As a leading provider of customer management services and the creator of Germany’s most successful multi-partner loyalty program, we maintain very large databases and their scalability and reliability is critical to our success. Using Voltaire InfiniBand in our large Oracle environment has enabled us to improve database performance while using inexpensive industry standard hardware to lower our cost of computing.
Harald Stefan, Database Manager
Loyalty Partner Solutions
We are approaching our new data center design with fresh thinking and innovative ways to maximize space and cost to deliver the lowest latency and best performance to our customers. Voltaire’s scale-out approach to Ethernet fabrics is unique and very well-aligned with the scalable infrastructure we will deploy in our next generation global data centers.
Steve Rubinow, EVP and Co-Chief Information Officer
NYSE Euronext
We are pleased to partner with Voltaire on this innovative facility that marries research with industry and selected them based on their expertise at providing solutions to the research and development organizations at many of the world’s leading automotive companies. We’re extremely impressed with the quality and performance of the Voltaire switches. They have been an important factor in the success of our mission to serve the automotive, aviation, and energy industries.
James H. Leylek, Ph.D, Executive Director
Clemson University Computational Center for Mobility Systems (CU-CCMS)
As part of the Open Cirrus™ project, KIT’s new supercomputer will build and optimize cloud applications for use in data centers around the world. We selected Voltaire’s Grid Director™ 4700 40 Gb/s InfiniBand switches because of the high performance and extreme scalability enabled by the switch’s double-density fabric boards. 40 Gb/s bandwidth coupled with Voltaire’s UFM software helps us improve application performance and offer more efficient service delivery in our multi-tenant cloud environment.
Professor Rudolf Lohner
Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)
We’ve already deployed Voltaire’s 40 Gb/s InfiniBand edge switch and are experiencing improved application performance for our Applications Research and Development cluster, which translates into solving more complex problems in less time. A high-port count switch leveraging 40 Gb/s InfiniBand such as the Grid Director 4700 will give us increased bandwidth and throughput to capitalize on the processing power of multi-core servers and scale up to thousands of nodes.
Goldi Misra, Head, High Performance Computing Solutions Group
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) located in Pune, India
As we look towards designing supercomputers exceeding 10K servers, large port count high bandwidth and low latency scalable switches, all with extremely low BERs, are a key to our future success. Voltaire’s 36 port QDR edge switch offering has shown promising results and has boosted our confidence in designing our next-generation system around the Grid Director 4700.
EKA Network Architect
Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), A wholly owned subsidiary of TATA Sons Ltd. located in Pune, India
In today’s environment HPC, datacenter or cloud computing facilities must support a diverse variety of workloads and constantly changing resource requirements. The ability to adapt the network fabric in addition to compute and storage resources is critical to overall data center efficiency. By integrating Moab with Voltaire’s UFM software we can fully automate network configuration management to meet the needs of security conscious multi-tenant cloud and data center environments.
Michael Jackson, President
Adaptive Computing
The combination of Platform LSF and Voltaire UFM software over InfiniBand enables our mutual customers to experience new levels of performance and efficiency for managing HPC data center virtualization and cloud computing technologies. The integration of Platform LSF with Voltaire UFM software extends Platform LSF’s ability to optimize the allocation of resources in the data center across the entire network for more efficient IT operations.
Tripp Purvis, Vice President, Business Development
Platform Computing
We are pleased to team up with Voltaire to deliver a massively scalable and extremely high-density networking environment for enterprises seeking the fastest end-to-end network performance combined with the cost of ownership advantages only possible with a multi-vendor solution from trusted providers. Fabric-based computing is the wave of the future, and now we are delivering a unified network fabric that combines the essential network elements from two companies with vast Fortune 500 enterprise experience in scale-out data center networking and high-performance computing.
Vikram Mehta, President and CEO
BLADE Network Technologies
Customers are increasingly using scale-out infrastructures in their data centers to drive higher application performance at reduced cost and increased power efficiency. HP server and blade platforms, combined with the Voltaire Vantage 8500 Layer 2 core switch, provide a low latency, cost-efficient 10 Gigabit Ethernet solution for scale-out environments.
Ed Turkel, Manager, Business Development, Scalable Computing and Infrastructure
HP
Customers look to IBM for enterprise cloud and scale-out data center solutions that are efficient, powerful and flexible. Combining Voltaire Vantage 8500 switches with IBM BladeCenter, iDataPlex and System x servers enable a scale-out environment for the low latency, low power and low cost requirements of today's data center.
Doug Balog, Vice President
IBM Systems & Technology Group
10 Gigabit Ethernet networks play an important role in virtualized data center architectures. Voltaire’s scale-out Ethernet fabrics complement VMware vSphere™ 4 to deliver simplified, high-performance connectivity that enables customers to build internal clouds and deliver IT as a service.
Shekar Ayyar, Vice President, Infrastructure Alliances
VMware
Virtualization technology is the foundation for the next-generation operating system for scale-out enterprise datacenters. Voltaire's open, standards-based approach to low latency, scale-out Ethernet fabrics is well aligned with Red Hat's open approach to datacenter virtualization with integrated virtualization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and through the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio. These solutions aim to offer scalability and cost-savings benefits to customers and feature the incorporation of KVM virtualization technology.
Navin Thadani, Senior Director, Virtualization Business
Red Hat
By combining NYSE Technologies’ Data Fabric™ with Voltaire's 10GigE solutions, we’re delivering breakthrough performance in an Ethernet based messaging system. This combination dramatically accelerates the performance of automated trading and market data applications and opens the platform to broader application as an Enterprise Messaging bus.
Conor Allen, Head of R&D
NYSE Technologies
As virtualization continues to proliferate in the data center, more and more customers are choosing to consolidate their networking and storage traffic on 10 Gigabit Ethernet. This delivers improved data center efficiency and helps customers simplify their infrastructure. We look forward to working with Voltaire to provide market-leading 10 Gigabit Ethernet solutions based on NetApp® FAS systems and Voltaire Vantage switches to meet this growing demand.
Patrick Rogers, Vice President of Solutions Marketing
NetApp
Mellanox 10 Gigabit Ethernet solutions deliver the highest utilization and efficiency to enable data centers to optimize performance, scalability and return on investment. Our ConnectX Ethernet NICs and Voltaire Vantage 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches offer significant throughput and low-latency advantages for enterprise-class and database applications for scale-out and virtualized server environments.
John Monson, Vice President of Marketing
Mellanox Technologies
Ethernet continues to evolve to bring new levels of InfiniBand-like performance, lower latency and greater efficiency to data center networking. The Voltaire Vantage switch takes advantage of the most advanced data center bridging features of our FocalPoint 10G Ethernet switch silicon and offers additional intelligence for switch-to-switch connections for added fabric scalability.
Mike Zeile, President and COO
Fulcrum Microsystems
Using Chelsio’s Unified 10 Gb Ethernet adapters, high performance data center customers are reaping the benefits of converging LAN, storage and compute traffic over offloaded 10 Gb Ethernet. We’re very pleased to partner with Voltaire to deliver ultra high performance, converged networks with much lower TCO to our mutual customers.
Kianoosh Naghshineh, President and CEO
Chelsio
Whether the need is to build the world's fastest computer or run a completely mobile data center, IBM's customers are on a continual quest to achieve the best performance and efficiency for their applications. Voltaire’s Grid Director 4700 switch and Unified Fabric Manager software deliver on that by providing wider pipes that eliminate server I/O bottlenecks and increase scalability for IBM’s cluster offerings, with new management capabilities that further optimize performance for multi-teraflop and petaflop systems.
Alex Yost, Vice President
IBM BladeCenter
Improved performance and scalability are important to customers that depend on high performance applications to drive their mission-critical business operations. Combining Voltaire’s 40 Gb/s InfiniBand with Silicon Graphics servers will enable customers to extract the best performance from their systems with an efficient, cost-effective solution that also addresses the management pain points that arise as systems scale-out and incorporate shared-memory servers, compute clusters and storage.
Bill Mannel, Director, Server Product Management
Silicon Graphics

